Video Shows SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Make Explosive Landing On Drone Ship

For the third time in roughly a year, Elon Musk’s space-transportation company fails to land a rocket booster vertically on an unmanned ship.

Less than a month after billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk made history with a “revolutionary” vertical landing of a Falcon 9 on land, just 6 miles from where it took off in Florida, his space exploration company spectacularly failed to land the main part of a spent rocket on a floating ocean platform on Sunday.

The Space Exploration Technologies Corp., more commonly known as SpaceX, launched a Falcon 9 rocket to deploy an international ocean-monitoring satellite into the orbit. The mission was successful, but the space transportation firm could not land the 14-story booster on a floating ocean platform off the California coast.